I use my boards about ten times a day. Any time I go to any place, I’m on a board. That includes work, grocery shopping, going to get dinner, going out to a bar on Friday night, taking the dog out for potty, or just riding around because I want to.
If the battery can’t be held at 100% charge, then it’s defective in my opinion. I can’t wait 2 hours after I decide I need to go somewhere while my ride charges. With all due respect, fuck that.
I do that with my Meepo, would go through like 2 charges a day (6 mile range maybe less) but I am building a MTB (30 miles or more range hopefully), so if I do that with a board that goes 6 miles, when I start to ride one that goes 30+ miles I will probably take it everywhere because I basically can go anywhere in my area with it. I probably won’t have any reason to buy a car because that kind of range will get me to neighboring cities… which is honestly insane (may need extra battery though to get back). When school was in I used the meepo at least 5-10 times a day to and from class and to get food. The main thing is that I looked forward to riding my board and the main reason I got my ass to go class was because I wanted to ride it. Since the torque wasn’t too insane I always 100% throttle, shouldn’t do that since it kinda wastes battery. I am a take your board everywhere type of person.
I would also ride it in the rains sometimes (because I had to), fucked the board up like 10 times, usually pulled through it though when it dried off it would work okay half the time or had to replace the part, the other half it would want to kill me and not stop accelerating or wouldn’t brake. (Don’t ride in the rain unless board is very water resistant)
I used cheap led strips on the bottom of a mountainboard. The controller died one day and the strips started falling off. I just left them to drag on the ground. At some point they must have fell off because i found shredded strip all over my motors.
I didn’t use loctite when I first installed the bull bar onto my trampa. First ride, I stopped about a mile in to feel my motors (live in a really hilly/hot area) and noticed one bolt had completely fallen out, and the second was on its way out. Just glad I caught it and removed it, would not have wanted that thing to fall off going 20mph+ and causing me to biff it pretty good.